Those without homes in Sonoma County can now camp overnight in some public spaces after the county's Board of Supervisors amended local regulations Tuesday that strictly prohibited outdoor encampments.
The board unanimously voted to continue prohibiting daytime camping on public property between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., but overnight encampments will be allowed.
According to the county, residents will not be moved from their encampments or cited under the new camping rules without"advance notification and warning." The county also sought to make outdoor camping easier after Sonoma County's 2022 Point-in-Time census of sheltered and unsheltered homeless residents found a population increase of 5 percent since the previous count in 2020.
Both totals are long-term decreases in the county's population of homeless residents, which sat at 4,539 in 2011.
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